Category: Infrastructure

Signs were few Tuesday that legislators are ready to raise the gas tax, or embrace some other new pot of federal dollars to pay for a big plan.

Pelosi seeks up to $2T infrastructure deal with Trump

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will seek a deal with President Trump to pass legislation that includes at least $1 trillion, but up to $2 trillion, for the nation’s infrastructure projects.

The Latest: Public land development to pay for parks upkeep

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s infrastructure proposal (all times local): 2:25 p.m. The Trump administration’s infrastructure plan includes $18 billion to create a public lands infrastructure fund for the Interior Department. Most of the money would come from revenue genera…

Trump Infrastructure Plan Would Pay For A Fraction Of Investment

The proposal says $1.5 trillion in spending is needed but allocates $200 billion over 10 years, with most of the rest of the funding burden shifted onto states and local governments.

The math in Trump’s infrastructure plan is off by 98 percent, UPenn economists say

The president is overselling the financial impact of his proposed $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan by about $1.3 trillion, they say.

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Puts Burden on State and Private Money

The president’s $200 billion plan recasts the federal government as a minority stakeholder in the nation’s new infrastructure projects.

Trump infrastructure push rolls back environmental rules

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday rolled back rules regarding environmental...

Nonprofit group sues Trump over infrastructure council

A new lawsuit claims that Trump’s infrastructure council has been operating in secrecy and that its co-chairs have potential conflicts of interests.

The Secret Life of Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

Laden with friends and business contacts, the president’s advisory council has been convening illegally, according to a new lawsuit.

Report: Trump may struggle to privatize public assets for $1T infrastructure plan

Trump wants to sell off public assets to pay for his infrastructure plan, but there may not be enough assets available to reach his $1 trillion goal.

The private money that’s after Trump’s public infrastructure projects

Some of the same Australians seeking new U.S. infrastructure deals already have had their hands in a privatization project that was once a bane of former Indiana Gov. and current Vice President Mik…

World Offers Cautionary Tale for Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

President Trump has called for private money to fund his $1 trillion plan, but similar moves in other countries have faced cost and quality problems.

Saudi Arabia to Invest $20 Billion in Infrastructure, Mostly in U.S.

The investment company Blackstone says the Saudi sovereign wealth fund has committed the money to a fund that could spend more than $100 billion on infrastructure.

Republicans in the Senate Thursday dealt President Obama the third in a string of defeats on his stimulus-style jobs agenda, blocking a $60 billion measure for building and repairing infrastructure like roads and rail lines.

The Republican party has taken "a wrong turn" under Donald Trump, according to three GOP challengers to the president, and is heading down the road to totalitarianism as states cancel primaries in an attempt to give Trump an unimpeded path to the nomination in 2020.

With John Bolton dismissed, Taliban peace talks a fiasco and a trade war with China, US foreign policy is ever more unstable and confrontational

It was, by all accounts, a furious row. Donald Trump was talking about relaxing sanctions on Iran and holding a summit with its president, Hassan Rouhani, at this month's UN general assembly in New York. John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser, was dead against it and… [more]